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| 9682773655 | Basic Industries | Definition: Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. Example: Agriculture, ranching, fishing, forestry, mining, and petroleum Application: Very few basic industries, but all essential to our economy. | 0 | |
| 9682773656 | Business Services | Definition: Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services Example:Banks, trains, public buses. Application: These are essential to our economy because they allow all services to operate. | 1 | |
| 9682773657 | Central Place | Definition: A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area Example: Midtown, Manhattan Application: Central Place is the prime place for a service to be based off of the central place theory. | 2 | |
| 9682773658 | Central Place Theory | Definition: A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. Example: Central Place Theory.. Application: The Central Place Theory | 3 | |
| 9682773659 | City-state | Definition: A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland Example: Vatican City, (Hong Kong?) Application: City States change the pace of geography | 4 | |
| 9682773660 | Clustered Rural Settlement | Definition: A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. Example: Ranches Application: Clustered Rural Settlements are very secluded. | 5 | |
| 9682773661 | Consumer Services | Definition: Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services Example: McDonalds. Application: Large part of financial sector today. | 6 | |
| 9682773662 | Dispersed Rural Settlement | Definition: A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. Example: Farms. Application: Separated from the typical. | 7 | |
| 9682773663 | Economic Base | Definition: A community's collection of basic industries. Example: Primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. Application: this is everything in the economy. | 8 | |
| 9682773664 | Enclosure Movement | Definition: The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. Example: Smaller farms in England Application: Very important because it describes the enclosure movement | 9 | |
| 9682773665 | Gravity Model | Definition: A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. Example: Amusement Park has lots of gravity. Application: Things with more gravity are rarer. | 10 | |
| 9682773666 | Market Area (or hinterland) | Definition: The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. Example: Westchester-->NYC Application: Hinterlands are still a part of the cities markets. | 11 | |
| 9682773667 | Nonbasic Industries | Definition: Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. Example: Gym, Laundry, Application: Non basic industries | 12 | |
| 9682773668 | Primate City | Definition: The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. Example: NYC Application: Most powerful city in country | 13 | |
| 9682773669 | Primate City Rule | Definition: A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. Example: NYC Application:Most powerful city in Country | 14 | |
| 9682773670 | Public Services | Definition: Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses Example: Subway system Application: Allows economy to run smoothly. | 15 | |
| 9682773671 | Range (of a service) | Definition: The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service Example: 5 min to Convenience store Application: Helps people to determine the central place for a service. | 16 | |
| 9682773672 | Rank-size Rule | Definition: A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the 11th largest settlement is in the population of the largest settlement. Example: ....? Application:....? | 17 | |
| 9682773673 | Service | Definition: Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. Example: Application: | 18 | |
| 9682773674 | Settlement | Definition: A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. Example: NYC Application: There are MANY settlements in the World | 19 | |
| 9682773675 | Threshold | Definition: The minimum number of people needed to support the service Example: only a certain percentage of actually people using service. Application: THe threshold is a necessary thing to be computed before starting a service. | 20 | |
| 9682773676 | Urbanization | Definition: An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. Example: People move into Hong Kong Application: Cities are the more powerful parts of countries. | 21 |
